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  Supreme Court Clears Way For Education Dept. Layoffs

  By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a Massachusetts federal judge's order halting massive job cuts at the U....(read more)

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  Kirkland, Wachtell Guide $17.5B Waters-BD Life Sciences Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Waters Corp. and Becton Dickinson and Co., or BD, said Monday they will combine BD's Biosciences and Diagnostic ...(read more)

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• Top Data Privacy & AI Developments Of 2025: Midyear Report

  By Allison Grande

  The rise and rapid fall of a federal proposal to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade and an uptick in activity from data privacy enforcers in states across the country dominated headlines in the first half of 2025, and attorneys are expecting these areas to continue to grab attention in the coming months. 

• Steward Health Fights To Confirm Chapter 11 Plan

  By Clara Geoghegan

  Steward Health, a former multistate hospital operator, urged a Texas bankruptcy judge Monday to confirm its Chapter 11 liquidation plan despite objections to how it tallied votes and its plans to pay administrative expenses with future litigation proceeds.

• 'It Is The Same Photo': 9th Circ. Questions Von D's Tattoo Win

  By Craig Clough

  A Ninth Circuit panel grappled Monday with tattoo artist Kat Von D's jury win over a photographer who claimed she infringed his copyrighted photo of Miles Davis with a tattoo she inked, with one judge noting the panel disagrees with the jury's finding the two works aren't substantially similar.

• LinkedIn Antitrust Deal Offers Open Access And $4M For Attys

  By Bryan Koenig

  LinkedIn will stop conditioning online interface access on would-be rivals agreeing not to field their own professional social network, under an antitrust settlement with premium subscribers disclosed Friday in California federal court that promises $4 million for class attorneys from Bathaee Dunne LLP, Burke LLP and Korein Tillery PC.

• Girardi Keese CFO Gets 5 Concurrent Years For Aiding Theft

  By Lauraann Wood

  Girardi Keese's former accounting head should serve more than five years alongside the 10 he's already logging for his role in helping Tom Girardi steal millions from plane crash clients who'd settled their cases in Chicago, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

• Victim's Family Says Tesla 'Set Stage' For Fatal Fla. Crash

  By Carolina Bolado

  The family of a woman killed in a Florida Keys crash told jurors Monday that Tesla Inc. "set the stage" for a reckless driver to plow into the woman's vehicle by overhyping its autopilot software's capabilities despite knowing of vulnerabilities in the program.

• Fed. Circ. Upholds PTAB Ax Of J&J Unit's Catheter Patent

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Monday upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of a Johnson & Johnson unit's patent on a device for clearing blocked arteries, saying an Abbott Laboratories unit's challenge was not improperly based on what the patent admitted was an earlier invention.

• 2nd Circ. Affirms Biotech Founder's Win In Trading Suit

  By Katryna Perera

  The Second Circuit on Monday affirmed an early win for the founder of biotech Y-mAbs Therapeutics Inc. in a suit alleging he realized more than $2.5 million in short-swing profits after he exchanged his shares for those of another company, agreeing with the lower court that the move didn't constitute a "purchase."

• Ex-ComEd Exec Gets 1½ Years For Hiding Madigan Bribes

  By Celeste Bott

  An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Commonwealth Edison executive and lobbyist to one and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to steer payments to allies of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to win his support for energy legislation favorable to the utility, and for falsifying company records to hide no-show jobs for Madigan's associates.

• Mich. Jury Sides With Red Cross In COVID Vax Refusal Suit

  By Danielle Ferguson

  A Michigan federal jury on Monday found that a former American Red Cross nurse's request for an exemption from the organization's COVID-19 vaccine mandate wasn't based on a sincere religious belief that barred her from getting the injection, rejecting the worker's request for more than $6 million in damages for her firing.

• Calif. Panel Keeps Charter PAGA Case Out Of Arbitration

  By Irene Spezzamonte

  Charter Communications can't arbitrate an employee's Private Attorneys General Act suit because parts of the arbitration agreement are "unconscionable," a California appeals panel ruled, relying on the state Supreme Court's decisions addressing the same pact.

• NY Court Declines To Make Trump US Atty Permanent

  By Andrea Keckley

  The Northern District of New York said on Monday that it has declined to appoint interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III to the permanent seat ahead of his short-term tenure's expiration, despite his previous comments to the contrary to local media.